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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-262647"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HIO"
cik: "0000910068"
company_name: "WESTERN ASSET HIGH INCOME OPPORTUNITY FUND INC."
filed_at: "2024-11-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T22:17:05.681889+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "medium"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund adopts amended bylaws effective Nov. 15, 2024

## Summary
- Bylaws amended and restated in their entirety; effective November 15, 2024.
- New provisions govern stockholder-requested special meetings, requiring majority vote to call.
- Advance notice tightened for director nominations and other proposals; deadlines based on prior annual meeting.
- Remote participation in stockholder meetings authorized with verification measures.
- Inspectors of elections may be appointed to review validity of stockholder meeting requests.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-262647
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HIO
- cik: 0000910068
- company_name: WESTERN ASSET HIGH INCOME OPPORTUNITY FUND INC.
- filed_at: 2024-11-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: medium
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/910068/000119312524262647/0001193125-24-262647-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/910068/000119312524262647/d828272d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  WESTERN ASSET HIGH INCOME OPPORTUNITY FUND INC.: The Board of Directors amended and restated the bylaws in their entirety, adopting the Fourth Amended and Restated Bylaws effective November 15, 2024 (effective 2024-11-15).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2024-11-15
  source text: The Board of Directors of Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund Inc. (the “Fund”) has amended and restated in its entirety the bylaws of the Fund (the “Fourth Amended and Restated Bylaws”). The Fourth Amended and Restated Bylaws became effective November 15, 2024
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/910068/000119312524262647/0001193125-24-262647-index.htm

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